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Quote by Walter Bagehot
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. – Walter Bagehot

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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot

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History
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. – Walter Bagehot

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven. – George Bernard Shaw

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The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. – Dodie Smith

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My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor. – Dane Cook

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The family is the first essential cell of human society. – Pope John XXIII

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Negative humor is forgotten immediately. Its the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter childrens books. – Berkeley Breathed

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Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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I consider that a mans brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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With Good Will Hunting, Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasnt expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way. – Gus Van Sant

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